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Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition

You're reading from   Joomla! 3 Beginner's Guide Second Edition Build, develop, and manage a fully functioning, professional looking, and feature-rich website with the Joomla! CMS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981502
Length 476 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A New and Easy Way to Build Websites 2. Getting Joomla! Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. First Steps – Getting to Know Joomla! 4. Web Building Basics – Creating a Site in an Hour 5. Small Sites, Big Sites – Organizing Your Content Effectively 6. Creating Killer Content – Adding and Editing Articles 7. Welcoming Your Visitors – Creating Attractive Home Pages and Overview Pages 8. Helping Your Visitors Find What They Want – Managing Menus 9. Opening Up the Site – Enabling Users to Log in and Contribute 10. Getting the Most out of Your Site – Extending Joomla! 11. Creating an Attractive Design – Working with Templates 12. Attracting Search Engine Traffic – SEO Tips and Techniques A. Keeping the Site Secure B. Creating a Multilingual Site C. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – creating a secondary menu item

To remove the News Archive link from the primary level in Main Menu and show it as a sublevel link, use the following steps:

  1. To edit the Main Menu content, navigate to Menus | Main Menu.
  2. Click on the title of the item you want to edit, News Archive.
  3. In the Details section, Parent Item is set to Menu Item Root. This indicates it's a top level link. Change Parent Item to News:
    Time for action – creating a secondary menu item
  4. Click on Save & Close. In the list of menu items in Menu Manager, the new sublevel menu item is shown indented, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – creating a secondary menu item
  5. To make sure the menu will display the sublinks intended, let's check a setting of the current menu module. Go to Extensions | Module Manager.
  6. In the Select Type drop-down list, select Menu. Click on the This Site menu module to edit it.
  7. On the Module options screen, check if End Level is set to All. This indicates that all submenu levels will be displayed. Leave Show Sub-menu Items set to No, unless you want...
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